On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:53:47PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and know the content is safe. > > > > By the way, I can't remember if I asked this before: is there a > particular use case that motivates this xattr work? > > --b. There's one use case that I can't really talk about publicly at this point (and it's not my code either, so I wouldn't have all the details). Nothing super secret or anything - it's just something that is not mine, so I won't try to speak for anyone. We wanted to get this upstreamed first, as that's the right thing to do. Since I posted my first RFC, I did get contacted off-list by several readers of linux-nfs who wanted to use the feature in practice, too, so there's definitely interest out there. - Frank
